Jean-Louis Sauvat

Since 2009, the collaboration between Jean-Louis Sauvat, a sculptor and painter passionate about the equestrian world, and the Maison Daum has given birth to a series of 4 powerful works, on the border between movement and matter. From this encounter between free artistic gesture and the refinement of crystal emerges a unique work: Balthazar, a vibrant tribute to the horse in its wildest and most majestic state.

A rider, trainer, and horse lover, Sauvat has made equine anatomy his expressive alphabet. His lively and fluid hand captures the gallop, muscle tension, and suspended energy of a free-spirited animal. This instinctive and gestural approach connects the artist to the expressionist movement, in its contemporary version, where emotion takes precedence over descriptive fidelity, and where the line or form testifies to a state of mind rather than a simple appearance.

The crystal paste, a noble and vibrant material, bends here to a desire to capture pure movement, without excess. In the grey-pink or amber-grey chromatic variations, each sculpture reveals the internal vibrations of the material, while highlighting the raw sensuality of the horse. Far from simple representation, Sauvat's work is a stopped gesture, a crystallized breath.

With Daum, Jean-Louis Sauvat translates his virtuosity with charcoal, plaster or bronze into a luminous, tactile and vibrant dimension. The company thus celebrates an essential figure of modern figurative expression, who elegantly combines mastery of line, intensity of subject and power of form.